Participatory Learning and Action 51:

Participatory Learning and Action 51: Civil society and poverty reduction
IIED, April 2005, 144 pp,
Price: $32.00

Guest editors: Alexandra Hughes and Nicholas Atampugre

Summary

This special issue of Participatory Learning and Action captures the experiences of Southern civil society organisations (CSOs), which are engaging in the monitoring, evaluation, and implementation of poverty reduction strategy (PRS) processes.

In many countries CSO engagement in this particular stage of these strategies is just beginning. There has been much reflection on engagement by CSOs in the formulation of PRSs, but much less written about how they are being monitored and implemented. With respect to monitoring and evaluation, this issue explores how CSOs are working towards the articulation and realisation of poor people's rights and the accountability of governments and other powerful actors towards them.

Authors for this issue came together at a workshop in July 2004 in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss the contributions and to share their experiences in PRS processes.

Editorial

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THEME SECTION: CIVIL SOCIETY AND POVERTY REDUCTION

1. Overview: a critical look at civil societies' poverty reduction monitoring and evaluation experiences

Alexandra Hughes and Nicholas Atampugre

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2. PRSP rhetoric: sugar-coated structural adjustment reality?

Atieno Ndomo

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3. What happened to the PRSP in Kenya - the role of politics

Hudson Shiverenje

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4. Bringing the poor into advocacy: a look at Ghana HIPC Watch

Siapha Kamara with Harriet Yeboah

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5. Setting the scene: a introduction to the Ugandan Poverty Eradication Plan

Moses Isooba and Richard Ssewakiryanga

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6. Civil society participation in Uganda's PRS process: opportunities and dilemmas

Moses Isooba

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7. Experiences of Uganda's PPA in implementing and monitoring poverty reduction

Richard Ssewakiryanga

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8. Bottom-up planning? Participatory implementation, monitoring and evaluation of PRS processes in Bolivia

Jordi Beneria Surkin

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9. Zambia's PRSP process: from exclusion to inclusion, confrontation to cooperation?

Besinati P Mpepo and Venkatesh Seshamani

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10. Fighting poverty demands strategic thinking and planning: the Bulgarian experience

Anna Athanassova

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11. PRS processes, participation and statelessness: exploring some dilemmas in Somalia:

MS Mohamud Faroole

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12. Participatory poverty research and policy influencing in PRSP processes: the Vietnam case

Hoang Xuan Thanh

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GENERAL SECTION

13. Participatory landscape analysis for community-based livestock management in Vietnam

Jean-Christophe Castella, Tran Trong Hieu and Yann K Eguienta

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14. Working with municipalities to develop urban health systems in Bangladesh
Dipankar Datta, Michelle Kouletio and Taifur Rahman

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15. Using actor-oriented tools to analyse innovation systems in Bangladesh

Harriet Matsaert, Zahir Ahmed, Noushin Islam and Faruqe Hussain

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16. Scaling up the use of PLA in a pilot health and nutrition programme, India

Amita Jain, Rajiv S. Saxena and Subir K. Pradhan

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17. River management in Bangladesh: a people's initiative to solve water-logging

Ashraf-Ul-Alam Tutu

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REGULARS

Tips for trainers

Developing indicators for monitoring poverty reduction strategies

Ghana HIPC Watch, SEND Foundation of West Africa

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In Touch

RCPLA Network

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